Sea levels along the West Coast will begin to rise by up to a foot this month as a series of pulses of warm water called Kelvin waves hit the shoreline and move north, sparking concerns about beach er...

The Navy described Monday's accident as a “mishap.” The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class carrier, was commissioned in 1977.

As climate change increases the risk of flooding across many parts of the United States, fewer people are buying flood insurance.

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...

A pulp mill in Longview, Washington, where 11 workers died after a chemical tank collapsed in May had a history of safety complaints, poor maintenance and discharges of toxic chemicals.

The judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial has told jurors to keep deliberating after they said they couldn't reach a unanimous decision on whether to hold the Massachusetts mother criminally responsible f...

Fire and medical officials have issued warnings about a supplement offered to Western wildland firefighters who have been exposed to toxic chemicals.

Authorities say a heavy-lift helicopter battling a Utah wildfire has crashed and an uncontained blaze in Oregon killed a bulldozer operator.

Police say a man charged with starting one of the wildfires in Spokane, Washington, that have destroyed hundreds of buildings planned the crime for weeks and researched when the weather would be best ...

Crews have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Washington state’s second-largest city, but hotter, drier and...

The fire that sparked Saturday is one of several burning around Spokane. They are among the most destructive blazes in state history, destroying at least 700 structures and forcing roughly 67,000 peop...

Authorities in southern Idaho say a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho has resulted in multiple people dead and others injured.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson may oust the city's police chief following public criticism over the response to a fatal shootout at a crowded food festival under the Space Needle.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson may oust the city's police chief following public criticism over the response to a fatal shootout at a crowded food festival under the Space Needle.

The U.S. Biathlon board of directors voted Wednesday to push back a planned merger with U.S. Ski & Snowboard in order to review the details after facing opposition from its community.

U.S. Biathlon's board is weighing whether to move under the control of U.S. Ski & Snowboard in an effort to boost revenues and performance.

Democratic members of Congress are demanding answers about Homeland Security’s vetting and training of immigration enforcement officers.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...

The deaths of three firefighters in Colorado are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire agency and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out...

The deaths of three firefighters in Colorado are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire agency and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out...

High winds drove a wildfire into an eastern Washington neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of about 1,500 people. Officials say at least 15 homes were destroyed.

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against GKN Aerospace after one of the company’s tanks containing a highly flammable chemical overheated and threatened a catastrophic explosion in California's O...

Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authoriti...

State officials are defending their policies of limiting the issuance undercover license plates to federal immigration authorities after President Donald Trump’s administration sued them over the matt...

There are millions of chemical tanks around the U.S., and experts say it is exceedingly rare for them to fail.

Officials have lifted evacuation orders for final 16,000 residents near a damaged chemical tank in California.

President Donald Trump has shared a video of a deadly attack at a Florida gas station, using it to justify his mass deportation agenda.

The legendary mountaineer Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest, has died at age 97.

Airport security video shows another way federal agents are taking immigrants to detention centers. In some cases they’re using commercial flights, with escorts dressed like any other passengers to av...

Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Washington state lawmakers were within their rights when they declined to issue press passes to three conservative media figures.

U.S. Biathlon head coach Armin Auchentaller is leaving the team. He ran both the men’s and women’s programs but the Americans fell short in winning their first medal in the Winter Olympics last month.

In the final biathlon event of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, France’s Oceane Michelon overcame a missed target in the final shooting stage in the 12.5-kilometer mass start race to take gold.

Johannes Dale-Skjevdal of Norway was the only biathlete to hit all 20 of his targets in the 15-kilometer mass start race Friday and skied his way to gold Norway’s 17th gold medal of the Milan Cortina ...

They wear Norwegian Viking helmets, French chicken suits and fuzzy black, red and yellow German cow hats, paint their faces in national colors, drape flags around their shoulders and don patriotic cos...

The sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing with .22-caliber rifles, developed out of Scandinavian military training exercises, so it’s not surprising that many of the biathletes compet...

Julia Simon didn’t need to shoot fast when she entered the range on the last leg of the women's 4x6-kilometer biathlon relay race at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

France goes from last place on the first leg to first on the last lap to secure the country’s first Olympic gold medal in men’s biathlon relay at the Milan Cortina Winter Games, upsetting defending ch...

The sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and precision target shooting, requires hundreds of hours of training and the ability to push your body to the maximum effort to have a chanc...

Sixteen years after finishing the mass start race at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Martin Fourcade was awarded his gold medal for the race.

Lisa Vittozzi secured Italy’s first Olympic gold medal in biathlon, hitting all 20 targets in the 10-kilometer pursuit biathlon race at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Martin Ponsiluoma of Sweden has dominated on the shooting range to take the gold medal in the 12.5-kilometer pursuit biathlon race at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

In her Olympic debut, Maren Kirkeeide of Norway has beaten two Frenchwomen to take gold in a snowy women’s 7.5-kilometer sprint biathlon race at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.